Beer goes down best when accompanied by macaroni and cheese with bacon and jalapeno peppers.

That certainly seems to have been the case for University of Connecticut student Luke Gatti, whose expletive laden confrontation with a campus food court manager – and subsequent arrest – after he was denied the cheesy concoction has become an Internet sensation.

A 9-minute, obscenity-laced video clip posted online shows the food-obsessed freshman arguing with a manager inside the university's student union in Storrs on Sunday night. Police and the manager said Gatti had been refused service for carrying an open alcohol container.

WARNING: This video contains profane language.

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/nation/2015/10/07/uconn-student-arrested-after-cafeteria-rant-when-he-refused-mac-and-cheese/73508812/

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/06/ben-carson-says-he-would-have-been-more-aggressive-against-oregon-gunman/?smid=fb-share&_r=0

And on Tuesday, Mr. Carson’s suggestion that he would have fought back in the face of an attack like the one in Roseburg, Ore., went viral, drawing widespread rebuke from his critics and reviving questions about his candidacy.

“I would not just stand there and let him shoot me,” Mr. Carson, who has been surging in recent polls, said on Fox News. “I would say: ‘Hey, guys, everybody attack him! He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all.’ ”

Offering a prescription that echoed the National Rifle Association’s view that arming “good guys” is the answer, Mr. Carson also suggested to USA Today that kindergarten instructors should have weapons training. “If the teacher was trained in the use of that weapon and had access to it, I would be much more comfortable if they had one than if they didn’t,” Mr. Carson said.

Like many Republican presidential candidates who have sought to express sympathy for victims while maintaining support for gun rights, Mr. Carson has struggled to address the issue with sensitivity. Belief in limited government is central to the Republican Party, and those running for office have found it challenging to offer solutions to an epidemic of violence that do not involve more federal oversight.

http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/256070-wayne-newton-all-in-on-trump

“I love Donald, and he would make a great president,” Newton told hosts Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade.

“Number one, he tells the truth,” said Newton. “Number two, he’s been where most of these guys want to be, in terms of riding on his own plane. He doesn’t have to worry about what hotels he stays in, he doesn’t have to worry about how his family gets to Hawaii, so on and so forth.”

“I could give you so many reasons,” the 73-year-old “Danke Schoen” singer continued. “But most of all, most important I think for Mr. Trump, is he tells it like it is.”

“Look, we can talk about these radicals all we want, but it’s my opinion, and I heard (Trump) say this too: They’re only going to be as radical as we let them be.”

Pastor charged for stealing $21K from church to pay off mistress



http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/06/pastor-charged-for-stealing-21k-from-church-to-pay-off-mistress/73460666/''

FLORISSANT, Mo. - A St. Louis County pastor has been charged with stealing more than $21,000 from a church to pay off a mistress.

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office says 30-year-old Ralph Sawyer stole the money from Lindsay Lane Missionary Baptist Church, where he served as a pastor.

According to charging documents, Sawyer had been issued an ATM card to pay for church expenses. The church's treasurer discovered funds were missing from the savings account, launching an investigation.

The investigation revealed Sawyer had made 35 withdrawals from the account in June and July, totaling $21,727.50.

In a letter posted Monday, Zimmerman says that the photo in the original tweet was marked as "sensitive" so it didn't automatically display and he retweeted the message, which said "Z-man is a one man army," without seeing the image. "The image of the body was blocked on my twitter feed and all twitter feeds," the letter, embedded below, reads. "Until the user chose to click on the blocked image warning it does not show the image. I did not click on the blocked image and preview it prior to re-tweeting it."

A Twitter representative told The Daily Dot that his explanation is plausible.

He doesn't apologize in the letter, but Zimmerman does say he doesn't want to relive the night he killed Martin and that he will never tweet images of him or his family.

"As many have learned about me throughout my trial and subsequent events, I hold my Christian values very close," Zimmerman writes. "I believe that me knowingly re-tweeting that image, would not be looked upon favorably by God; therefore I would not do it."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/george-zimmerman-says-he-inadvertently-retweeted-photo-of-trayvon-martins-body/ar-AAfbe3W?li=AAa0dzB

Ben Carson: 'Body With Bullet Holes' Preferable to Gun Control

If you're ever the victim of a gunshot wound, surely you'd rather have a highly successful surgeon like Ben Carson working to save your life than a writer like me.

But when it comes to preventing bodies from being riddled with bullets in the first place, trust me when I say you don't want Carson anywhere near the policy-making apparatus of the United States.

Carson took to Facebook Monday night to answer a question about whether the recent mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, changed his thoughts about the Second Amendment.

"There is no doubt that this senseless violence is breathtaking," Carson wrote, "but I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ben-carson-body-with-bullet-holes-preferable-to-gun-control-20151006

BOISE - A Nampa mom is upset after she says she received a nasty note from her fellow diners accusing her 10-month-old son of "ruining" their dinner with his yelling.

Katie Leach admits that her son's "new thing" is yelling.

"He will yell when I tell him no, when he's super excited and happy or just for no reason at all," Leach wrote on a Facebook post to KTVB. "I'm doing my best to teach him indoor voice and to not yell back at me when telling him no etc, But he is only 10 (almost 11 months) and LEARNING."

Leach says she and her family where dining at Texas Roadhouse in Nampa when her son began to yell off and on. "We all tried quieting him down which a majority of the time he did but he also was so excited to be around all the commotion," said Leach. "He was not yelling to be mean or because he was mad, it was purely from excitement and being happy."

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/weird/2015/10/05/diners-accuse-family-of-ruining-their-dinner-deliver-nasty-note/73404394/

Florida Senate candidate killed goat in ritualistic sacrifice to ‘god of the wilderness,’ drank animal’s blood

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/florida-senate-candidate-killed-goat-in-ritualistic-sacrifice-to-god-of-the-wilderness-drank-animals-blood



TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two years ago, Augustus Sol Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week fasting and praying, at times thinking he wouldn’t survive. In a pagan ritual to give thanks when he returned home, he killed a goat and drank its blood.

Now that he’s a candidate for U.S. Senate, the story is coming back to bite him.

The chairman of the Libertarian Party of Florida has resigned to call attention to Invictus’ candidacy in hopes that other party leaders will denounce him. Adrian Wyllie, who was the Libertarian candidate for governor last year, says Invictus wants to lead a civil war, is trying to recruit neo-Nazis to the party and brutally and sadistically dismembered a goat.

It’s an awkward situation for the small party that’s trying to gain clout. “He is the absolute exact opposite of a Libertarian. He’s a self-proclaimed fascist. He’s promoting a second civil war,” Wyllie said. “It’s absolute insanity. We must explain to people this is the opposite of Libertarians. This guy has no place in the Libertarian Party.”

http://www.wcnc.com/story/money/2015/10/04/lawsuit-most-interesting-man-least-honorable/73333258/

(NEWSER) – Jonathan Goldsmith doesn't always get sued but when he does, it can get nasty.

The actor best known for portraying the "Most Interesting Man in the World" in Dos Equis ads is being sued for breach of contract by his former talent agency, which claims he has stopped paying commission on the roughly $1 million a year he makes from the ads, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

"There is nothing interesting about being a deadbeat or failing to pay those directly responsible for one's career success," the complaint says. "As it now turns out, had Goldsmith landed a role that more accurately portray[ed] his true character, he would have landed the role of 'The Least Honorable Man in the Entertainment Business.'"

Goldsmith's former manager at Jordan Lee, Inc. says Goldsmith, who got the Dos Equis job in 2006 stopped paying the 10% commission a year ago because he felt he had paid "enough," TMZ reports. The lawsuit says the actor's relationship with the agency changed after the agent who got him the role — and is now his wife — left the company, per the Reporter.

I know people like "rebooted" TV shows like "Hawaii 5-O" VERY much, so it's POSSIBLE, but then again I feel like the Lethal Weapon franchise is probably better left to rest in peace.

YOUR thoughts?

'Lethal Weapon' TV Series Reboot Heading to Fox

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/lethal-weapon-tv-series-reboot-heading-to-fox-20151003

Network orders put pilot for new series based on Mel Gibson and Danny Glover's buddy cop franchise

Lethal Weapon will soon head to television as Fox has ordered a series reboot of the film franchise. Fox has given the TV series based on the Mel Gibson and Danny Glover buddy cop films a put pilot, which all but guarantees that the show will air in some capacity on the network or face substantial penalties to Warner Bros TV, the studio producing the reboot. While the franchise's original producers will not be involved in the TV reboot, they have reportedly given the project their blessing, The Hollywood Reporter writes.

Like the film franchise, which spawned four movies and raked in nearly a billion dollars at the box office, the series will revolve around Roger Murtaugh (originally played by Glover), a homicide detective who's "getting too old for this shit," and his partner Martin Riggs (Gibson), an unstable, risk-taking narcotics officer.

Deadline writes that the original narrative will change slightly for TV, with Riggs now a former Texas cop and Navy SEAL who moves to Los Angeles following the loss of his wife and baby. He's then partnered with Murtaugh, who must avoid stress in his life after suffering a minor heart attack. Chuck writer Matt Miller will write and co-executive produce the reboot. No word yet which actors will assume the Murtaugh and Riggs roles.

Rebooting popular films as TV series has become a trend in recent years, with shows like Syfy's 12 Monkeys, MTV's Scream, CBS' Limitless, Fox's Minority Report, FX's Fargo and A&E's Psycho-based Bates Motel just a handful of television shows that have roots on the big screen.